Football’s ridiculous. And unfair. But it’s such fun

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The money sloshing around the sport is part of what makes it so compelling. ‘Financial fair play’? Nonsense

It was almost 11 o’clock on Saturday night, well past his bedtime, and my middle son, my nine-year-old, was still up. Worse, he was running round the lounge, jumping up and down and shouting at the top of his voice.

This is not behaviour I would normally condone. But I would have felt a hypocrite telling him off, given that at the time I was running faster, jumping higher and shouting louder. It’s not every night that Chelsea win the Champions League.

I can’t really explain to you where my liking of football comes from. I don’t come from a